Gun Confiscation is NOW in the California Reich

By Richard W. Stevens, Esq.

California’s attorney general is paying gun owners $230 to
sell their fundamental rights. Once a whore sells her virtue,
she cannot buy it back at any price. You can’t buy back lost
rights at any price.

It was right out of the pages of a police state manual.
First there was mandatory registration of certain named "assault
weapons." Anyone who wanted to keep one of the named firearms
must have owned it prior to June 1, 1989, and had to register it
by March 30, 1992. Registration gave the state a list of owners.

The Attorney General’s Gotcha!

Many owners of the named firearms did not comply with the
law, so Attorney General Dan Lundgren allowed persons to register
them after the deadline. Fearing criminal penalties for
possessing an illegal firearm, many owners reported their
firearms under Lundren’s "amnesty" program.

In August 1998, however, a California appellate court held
the Attorney General could not legally allow the gun owners to
register their weapons after the March 1992 deadline. That
ruling came after many owners had already identified themselves
by registering late. The Attorney General had led the law-
fearing lambs into a trap: citizens had voluntarily informed the
state that they were felons.

Meanwhile, in May 1999, California Secretary of State Bill
Lockyer offered to buy the liberty of California citizens.
Paying a flat rate of $230 per trick, the state would "buy back"
any SKS Sporter semi-automatic rifle (with a "detachable
magazine") that was purchased by its owner between 1992 and 1997.
The Governor signed a bill in September 1998 which protected the
owners from being prosecuted ... if they turned in the SKS
weapons. Call this "confiscation light."

Then California lawmakers passed SB 23. On January 1, 2000,
any Californian who possesses a magazine-fed centerfire rifle or
carbine may be guilty of a felony. The 1989 law banned weapons
only by their names -- the 1999 law bans all such firearms by
their features (e.g. pistol grip, thumbhole stock, flash
suppressor).

Registration Begets Confiscation

The California Department of Justice has already prepared
the confiscation letter. Guess who will get the letter? The
form letter itself says it will go to those citizens who were
listed in "the Department of Justice’s assault weapon
registration file." The people who registered during the
previous Attorney General’s "amnesty" are on the list.

The Internet news service, WorldNetDaily,
obtained unreleased copies of the confiscation letter. To the registered
gun owners, the letter reads: "If you possess a prohibited
assault weapon ... but you did not register the weapon until
after March 30, 1992, you may be subject to criminal prosecution.
You are advised to relinquish the assault weapon to a police or
sheriff’s office..."

Compensation for owners? None. The state’s plan is to give
the gun owners 90 days to turn in their semiautomatic rifles --
and get nothing.

Learn the Enemy Strategy

Firearms makers and owners must learn to spot the enemy
strategy instantly. Here is how it works:

(5) Declare some of the "limited" class of guns illegal, but
offer to pay the owners to make it look "fair."

(6) Confiscate all of the "limited" class of guns, without
compensation, to "close the loophole" in the gun law. Use the
registration list to send letters first, and government agents
next.

This procedure mimics that of the Nazi German anti-Jewish
laws. First the laws were limited in scope and application.
People tried to obey the laws, thinking that the laws would not
get worse. Soon the laws expanded and became more severe. Still
the people kept trying to adapt to avoid punishment. Eventually
the laws mandated the "final solution" to "close the loopholes"
through which many Jews were managing to survive despite the
Nazi’s legal oppression.

You just saw registration lead to confiscation
this year in America’s most populous state. Now will you
fight back? Donate the cost of a box of ammo to fight
this cancer? Use JPFO’s strategies and materials in your town,
city and state?

Contact JPFO at (800) 869-1884 or visit www.jpfo.org
today! Or get ready to be pimped by your state government...